Spurious Crests In Second-Order Waves

• Main Author: M. A. Tayfun
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Large waves; non-linear effects; simulation; spectra; spurious crests; Stokes waves; wave breaking; wave statistics.; Arctic; Osborne
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1082956; https://zenodo.org/record/1082956

Occurrences of spurious crests on the troughs of large, relatively steep second-order Stokes waves are anomalous and not an inherent characteristic of real waves. Here, the effects of such occurrences on the statistics described by the standard second-order stochastic model are examined theoretically and by way of simulations. Theoretical results and simulations indicate that when spurious occurrences are sufficiently large, the standard model leads to physically unrealistic surface features and inaccuracies in the statistics of various surface features, in particular, the troughs and thus zero-crossing heights of large waves. Whereas inaccuracies can be fairly noticeable for long-crested waves in both deep and shallower depths, they tend to become relatively insignificant in directional waves. : {"references": ["R. G. Dean, and R. A. Dalrymple, Water Wave Mechanics for Engineers\nand Scientist., New Jersey: World Scientific, 1991, pp. 295-305.", "R. 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